# Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries at Diamondback Energy
> OSHA SIR `2025088412` · 8/23/2025 · TARZAN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Springs, coils
- **Secondary source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Diamondback Energy
- **Location:** Apollo 38-1 #233, TARZAN, TEXAS, 79783
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to pull and inspect a plunger. While working to move the bumper spring further up for retrieval using gas pressure, the bumper spring ejected forcefully into the air, falling back down, and striking the employee on the back of the hard hat. The employee sustained a brain bleed and concussion, and fractures to their neck/cervical spine.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*